During recent years, a lot of hollywood movies dedicate to all kinds of utopian or dystopian future societies have been released; in literature, the dystopian genre has also become quite popular among adults and especially teenagers in the U.S. But what about the world that young people would really like to live in?
According to recent studies by Dr. Alice Freidenhsrauer, the majority of young people connect the future world with the intense development of technologies. Usually, they describe their perfect version of the future as a world where Internet-based technologies are integrated in daily life so closely that there is no actual difference between virtual reality and the real world. For example, Dr. Freidenhsrauer gives an example of tony Herbenson, a 19 year old student from Silverton College of Arts, who described the future he would like to live in as a place where technologies have become as natural as speech or sight; Tony suggested that in the future, people will implant certain gadgets in their bodies – for example, communication devices, devices that allow immediate access to the Internet, or to virtual (enhanced) reality, and so on. This reminds of the ideas of transhumanists, who believe that merging technologies with the human body would be the natural stage of …show more content…
In particular, by peace the respondents meant the absence of wars – either global or local, and by welfare they implied mostly health. After the recent media panic around ebola, many young people consider health safety to be crucial for well-being, rather than money or success. Young people hope scientists will soon manage to find cures for such major diseases as cancer, HIV, and ebola. Also, young people expect humanity to solve the problem of hunger and
According to recent studies by Dr. Alice Freidenhsrauer, the majority of young people connect the future world with the intense development of technologies. Usually, they describe their perfect version of the future as a world where Internet-based technologies are integrated in daily life so closely that there is no actual difference between virtual reality and the real world. For example, Dr. Freidenhsrauer gives an example of tony Herbenson, a 19 year old student from Silverton College of Arts, who described the future he would like to live in as a place where technologies have become as natural as speech or sight; Tony suggested that in the future, people will implant certain gadgets in their bodies – for example, communication devices, devices that allow immediate access to the Internet, or to virtual (enhanced) reality, and so on. This reminds of the ideas of transhumanists, who believe that merging technologies with the human body would be the natural stage of …show more content…
In particular, by peace the respondents meant the absence of wars – either global or local, and by welfare they implied mostly health. After the recent media panic around ebola, many young people consider health safety to be crucial for well-being, rather than money or success. Young people hope scientists will soon manage to find cures for such major diseases as cancer, HIV, and ebola. Also, young people expect humanity to solve the problem of hunger and